# Working with Excel: n8n workflow template

> Started by an event in a connected app, and works across FTP and Google Drive. 12 steps: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/working-with-excel (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

[Automation library](https://millionrounds.com/workflows) · [Documents and files](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?category=Documents+and+files#library)

# Working with Excel

Started by an event in a connected app, and works across FTP and Google Drive. 12 steps: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium

[Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Fworking-with-excel)

**12 steps** Medium: a working afternoon

**0** Branches: places the flow splits

**0** Loops or waits

**2** Services it connects to

## The flow

Starts it 1 Logic 1 Service 10

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

- 1 **On clicking 'execute'** Manual trigger *Starts it*
- 2 **Read Binary File** Read Binary File *Service*
- 3 **Download Excel File** Http Request *Service*
- 4 **Download from Google Drive** Google Drive *Service*
- 5 **Download from Microsoft OneDrive** Microsoft One Drive *Service*
- 6 **Read Spreadsheet File** Spreadsheet File *Service*
- 7 **Work out Age** Set *Logic*
- 8 **Write Spreadsheet File** Spreadsheet File *Service*
- 9 **Upload to SFTP** Ftp *Service*
- 10 **Upload to Google Drive** Google Drive *Service*
- 11 **Write Binary File** Write Binary File *Service*
- 12 **Upload to Microsoft OneDrive** Microsoft One Drive *Service*

## How it's built

- **Starts on:** An event in a connected app
- **Steps:** 12
- **Size:** Medium: a working afternoon
- **Connects to:** FTP, Google Drive
- **Model:** None. This is plumbing, not judgement

## Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own FTP and Google Drive accounts. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on an event in a connected app.

Does it use AI?

No. Every step is fixed logic or a call to a service, so it does the same thing every time.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 12 steps is enough that you should read each one before running it.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

**Before you run it**

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 12 steps before you point it at anything that matters.

## Run it in n8n

- **Create your n8n account** Free to start. n8n is where the workflow runs. [Create an n8n account ↗](https://millionrounds.com/n8n)
- **Download the workflow** Free with a Millionrounds account. [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Fworking-with-excel)
- **Paste it into n8n** Open a new workflow in n8n and paste. Then connect your own accounts.

Stored with the author's traces removed: canvas notes, instance identifiers, saved credential names and any live document they had left behind.

## Connects to

Each opens the other workflows that use it.

[FTP](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=FTP#library)[Google Drive](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Google+Drive#library)

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